What's the difference between grackle and tinkling?
Grackle
Definition:
(n.) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.
(n.) An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.
Example Sentences:
(1) A single specimen, a partially engorged female, of Ixodes brunneus was recovered from a common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) in Butler County, near El Dorado, Kansas (USA).
(2) DCF detected antibody in most inoculated common grackles, mourning doves, and brown-headed cowbirds.
(3) It was unreliable, however, for great-tailed grackles and bronzed cowbirds inoculated intramuscularly.
(4) Among Common Grackles, Quiscalus quiscula, two characteristic activities of partners, following and vocal answering, develop during group activities and promote the individual specificity of pair bonds.
(5) Estimated normal bounds for each of the 18 variables measured by commonly used clinical procedures are presented for reproductively quiescent northern bobwhites, European starlings, red-winged blackbirds, and common grackles.
(6) Sporocysts of duck, cowbird, and grackle origin were structurally similar.
(7) Most communication among common grackles Quiscalus quiscula occurs at distances of less than a few metres in the noisy environment of a breeding colony.
(8) Chlamydiae were apparently transmitted to the uninoculated great-tailed and common grackles and mourning doves, for antibody was detected by all 3 methods in these species kept as uninoculated cagemates.
(9) Two female common grackles (Quiscalus quiscula) were inoculated intratracheally with 1.6 X 10(8) chick embryo lethal doses50 of a chlamydial organism isolated from turkeys.
(10) An extensive survey of birds for Leucocytozoon in South Carolina during the summer of 1972 revealed that Blue Jays, Purple Grackles and domestic chickens were commonly infected.
(11) Angiotensin converting enzyme activity was identified in brush-border membranes purified from the small intestinal epithelium of the common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula.
(12) It is concluded that: 1) grackles are potential reservoir hosts that could be important in the transmission cycle of C. psittaci in nature; and 2) epidemiologic studies of chlamydiosis in wild birds should include both serologic testing (preferably by the MDCF method) and attempts to isolate chlamydiae from cloacal swabs.
(13) Chlamydiae were isolated in mice from cloacal swabs taken 14 days postinoculation from the infected grackles.
(14) These results indicate contact transmission of chlamydiae from infected grackles to turkeys.
(15) Four wild bird species--great-tailed grackle (Cassidix mexicanus), common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula), brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater), and mourning dove (Zenaidura macroura)--were either inoculated intratracheally with Chlamydia psittaci or exposed indirectly as uninoculated cagemates.
(16) The birds species used were great-tailed grackles (Cassidix mexicanus), common grackles (Quiscalus quiscula), brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), bronzed cowbirds (Tangavius aeneus), and mourning doves (Zenaida macroura).
(17) Methiocarb (4-methylthio-3, 5-xylyl N-methyl carbamate, Mesurol, Bay (3744), a bird repellent, was fed in concentrations of 100 to 1,000 ppm to common grackles (Quiscalus quiscula), mourning doves (Zenaida macroura), and breeding pairs of coturnix quail (Coturnix coturnix) to investigate the possibility of cumulative intoxication.
(18) Sporadic shedding of chlamydiae was demonstrated in three species (great-tailed grackle, brown-headed cowbird, and mourning dove) that were inoculated, and also in uninoculated grackles of both species exposed to inoculated great-tailed grackles.
(19) AGP detected antibody in all inoculated brown-headed cowbirds and all mourning doves, 1 inoculated and 1 exposed great-tailed grackle, and none of the other 2 species.
(20) An index of similarity is presented to express the species importance relationships of the helminth faunas of the 7 species of birds: red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus), blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata), brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), common grackles (Quiscalus quiscula), house sparrows (Passer domesticus), starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), and robins (Turdus migratorius).
Tinkling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tinkle
(n.) A tinkle, or succession of tinkles.
(n.) A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
(2) Look out for peregrine falcons and ravens riding the cliffupdraughts, and in spring listen for the tinkling songs of redstarts.
(3) The short teaser film, accompanied by that familiar tinkling soundtrack, showed no gameplay footage at all.
(4) Nonetheless, this is the first time I think I've seen it framed in such a "female" way and, as we are usually the ones being told not to "leave it too late", I have to admit that I almost cackled (young women have delicate, tinkling laughs, but feminists cackle, obviously).
(5) Cycle alongside Lake Shore Drive in the early morning and you will pass black church groups jogging, Asians playing cricket and the tinkling of masts in the marina.
(6) I knew I had to rethink everything.” Joining the Royal Court in 1957, he made his London directing debut with NF Simpson ’s A Resounding Tinkle, and scored an early success with John Osborne ’s Epitaph for George Dillon, which transferred to Broadway.
(7) His first play to be produced was A Resounding Tinkle (1957), which in its original two-act form won third prize in an Observer playwriting competition organised by Tynan and was produced as a Sunday night "without decor" production at the Royal Court.
(8) The muses holding up the balcony tittered and the huge chandelier, only just out of reach of Dodd's enormous tickling stick, tinkled with delight.
(9) But what other institutions could do with the tinkling of shattering glass?
(10) While passengers at Tiburtina, one of Rome’s main train stations and just a 10-minute ride from the Colosseum, tinkled on the station’s piano or stopped off for an ice cream, outside there were more urgent matters at hand.
(11) The tinkle of the flagpoles is about the only sound on the tarmac.
(12) The first few minutes of tense conversations and snow-shrouded Swedish landscapes are accompanied by wintry drones and tinkling bells.
(13) Despite this non-specific lust, he does have a girlfriend of sorts: the grotesque Margaret, whose "tinkle of tiny silver bells" laugh will freeze the heart of any would-be coquette.
(14) Inside, Lea and Alice lean on the desk, Magic FM tinkling on the radio.
(15) The short-form version of A Resounding Tinkle was this time paired with Gladly Otherwise, in which a furniture inspector asks householders about their absence of floor and is told that it's under the carpet ("making full use of it, I hope?").
(16) There are three distinct sounds of broken glass tinkling to the pavement from the shattered window, a small handful of thunks as he falls sideways to the ground, his laboured breathing, the chug of his boot heel finally connecting with the asphalt – even the pads of his fingers as they scrabble along the top of the window.
(17) As he bellowed down the phone to the Guardian today it was hard not to notice lounge music tinkling in the background – the soundtrack aboard Green's yacht off the Italian coast where he is entertaining Naomi Campbell and Leonardo DiCaprio this week.
(18) An extraordinary impact was rounded off in 1959 when Peter Cook – who owed much of his wild-eyed, raincoated monologist EL Wisty to Simpson – appeared at Cambridge in a student revival of the two-act A Resounding Tinkle, directed by John Bird.
(19) Slender cypress trees sway in the warm breeze, as the sound of wind chimes tinkles across the terraces.
(20) If you were growing up in the 70s and 80s, you probably moved without loyalty or much discernment between choc ices and Neapolitan blocks at home and a 99 Flake whenever you were in earshot of the melodious tinkling of Greensleeves.